November trade deficit dips yet shows yearlong rise
The Commerce Department reports a November trade deficit of 1.95 billion, narrowing from October but pushing 1978’s year total to 26.74 billion, surpassing the 1977 full-year record. Exports total 13.26 billion, while imports reach a record 15.2 billion with oil and gold shifts shaping the balance.
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Michael Doan
Associated Press
Washington
Commerce Department
Department
U.S
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Seventeen bodies found in Gacy case
John W. Gacy Jr., the alleged sex slayer, reportedly attempted suicide at Cook County Jail Cermak Hospital, strangling himself with a towel. He is charged with murder of one youth and suspected in up to 31 more killings as bodies were located at his Des Plaines home and elsewhere.
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Sun Times
Sun-Times
Gacy
Des Plaines
Stein
Cook County
Chicago
Iowa
Chicago Tribune
The
Tribune
Norridge
Robert Piest
Piest
Weather Forecast For Pecos and Vicinity
Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer today and Friday with highs 55 to 70 and 32 to 62 respectively. Tonight’s lows 22 to 50. northern Panhandle to see snow spreading into the South Plains by Friday afternoon. Turn colder tonight in the Panhandle with much colder north portion Friday and rain possible in the west.
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Pecos
Panhandle
South Plains
Commission on finance finishes school study
After 14 months the Legislative Commission on Public School Finance released a report to the 66th Legislature. It offers four options based on the current funding method, without major departures. Rep. Tom Massey expressed disappointment at the lack of a definitive direction.
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Lee Jones
Open records ruling orders disclosure of most audit pages
Attorney General John Hill ruled the Dallas Independent School District must release all but two pages of Price Waterhouse audit on purchasing practices. He cited citizens' right to inspect records and said two pages may be withheld as inter agency memos. Separate opinion noted a trade secret exception for a preliminary work program in a governor audit. Reeves County to swear in county officials January first at 10 a.m.
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Austin, Texas
John Hill
Hill
Dallas Independent School District
Price Waterhouse & Co
Open Records
Oregon
Criminal Justice Division
Catherine Ashley
Reeves County
Estes faces plea bargain decision in federal court in Fort Worth
Paroled swindler Billie Sol Estes returns to federal court to decide whether to withdraw his conditional guilty plea tied to a 1971 parole. If he defects, prosecutors could present two year probe findings to a grand jury. The case stems from a 1965 conviction for a scheme defrauding investors with fake ammonia tank loans.
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Fort Worth
Cullen Davis denies intent to kill in murder for hire trial
In Houston on day two of testimony billionaire Cullen Davis said he had a bad feeling about his dealings with informant David McCrory but denied any plan to kill anyone He claimed there was no plan to kill and that tapes were used as a tool while he followed instructions from a man posing as an FBI agent to lure McCrorys associates into his scheme The FBI had recordings of August meetings central to the case and Davis sought to explain the incriminating statements to jurors
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Mike Cochran
Associated Press
Houston (Ap
Cullen Davis
David McCrory
Davis
McCrory
FBI
Priscilla
James Acree
Acree
Fort Worth
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Reeves County Hospital
Keith Bodi
Pecos Ward
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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West Texas
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U.S. Parole Board
Estes
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Mahon
Parole Board
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